<p>haha sorry i meant to include mass.</p>
<p>Apparently people from kansas have no accent.</p>
<p>so i went for visit days and started talking and everyone was like “you have no accent…”</p>
<p>I couldn’t get over the use of the words “wicked” and “pop” when I met people from up north.</p>
<p>*** is taivo, eino, hotdish, lukefisk, and whatever else you crazy people are coming up with. I am from Colorado and we have NO accent.</p>
<p>^^ who doesn’t say “pop”</p>
<p>what do you say “soda?”</p>
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<p>ROFLMAO. Nice…</p>
<p>bananasandwich-
its soda or coke, never pop
pop is for the midwest </p>
<p><a href=“http://popvssoda.com:2998/countystats/total-county.html[/url]”>http://popvssoda.com:2998/countystats/total-county.html</a></p>
<p>meh- I’m from the midwest, and I say “soda”.</p>
<p>Then again, I have no real accent to speak of- I’ve lived varying parts of my life in Northern California and Kansas, so that’s probably the cause.</p>
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<p>Howabout this prevailing theory instead: It is cold in Alaska. It is cold in Minnesota. Therefor, Sarah Palin, who is the governor of Alaska, has a Minneesooota accent. You betcha!</p>
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<p>I knew I heard people saying “idear,” I thought maybe I was just imagining it or misheard.
By the way, New York and Jersey aren’t part of New England.</p>
<p>I am from OHIO and in Columbus there is no noticeable accent- 'cept you’re from a different country or part of the u.s. Now in the more country hick area there is a bit of a southernish accent. Oh and I am wondering is there an accent in Chicago- and what does it sound like</p>
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Hahah NY and NJ aren’t in New England, nice try…
That accent you described is really annoying, but it’s mostly people from Boston and NYC or certain parts of Jersey…definitely not most people from New England or NY State.
Adding “r” to the end of words is definitely a boston thing, but I hear it in NY a lot (from non natives). It’s pah-stuh, not pastor! :p</p>
<p>Brooklyn/Staten Island accents are so ugly but I like them because so many people I know have them…I also hate a certain type of Southern accent, not sure which region it’s from but it automatically makes the person sound like trailer trash. I also really like another type of Southern accent but I can’t place it either.</p>
<p>I’m not yet in college, but people from NYC have told me that I have a “country” accent. I’m from an area where only transplants and people who didn’t speak English as their first language have accents.</p>
<p>Sometimes I have a teensy bit of a Chicago accent. I say soda, because I think pop sounds silly, but when I say pop, or box, or anything with that particular enunciation…it comes out, haha.</p>
<p>I’m from New Jersey, and everyone I met from other parts of the country is surprised that I DON’T have a “Jersey Accent”. Truth be told, “Jersey Accents” don’t really exist.</p>
<p>^straight up lie!
jersey accents are the WORST
you just are lucky enough not to have one</p>
<p>I can spot accents dead on. I can tell what region of Canada or the US you’re from if I’ve heard it before. English dialects I’m pro at. I watch all kinds of British shows, and my dad can do about 27 different English dialects along with at least 30 additional accents. And no, I’m not kidding. So although I can’t mimic accents, I can recognise them right away…like down to the town, like “You’re from Comber, eh?” or “Geeze, it’s obvious you’re from Kitchener.”</p>
<p>For me, living in a city that’s very much Americanised (a LOT of people spell things incorrectly/the American way) so I have a tad bit of an Michighan accent, but other times I’m so blatanly Canadian it’s hilarious. What’s odd is, people in my city will go “Are you American?” sometimes, but you go States-side and they go “Damn, you’re Canadian. It’s obvious.”</p>
<p>It’ll be interesting to me when I go up into Northern Ontario, because there’s some key differences in their accent (especially the natives of the area) and mine. But it won’t be anything really for me to adjust to because I have relatives in that area, so I’m really familiar with the accent. Lol.</p>
<p>no new jersey accents don’t REALLY exist. at least not in new jersey. no one says joi-zee. or caw-fee. or waw- tah. we say jersey, coffee, water. i’m from north jersey, i have friends from south jersey. no one talks like that. no one taw-ks like that either. I’m not saying we don’t have an accent I’m sure we do. It just isn’t the stereotyped one that everyone attributes to New Jersey. That stereotype is actually more of a long island/ brooklyn accent. And sometimes because we’re so close, certain words seep in. For example, I say say-ad, may-ad , etc. cuz my mom is a long islander. but my friends all make fun of me for it cuz most jerseyans don’t talk like that. my other friend says beg-al for bagel… but we all mock her for that too. truth be told, new jerseyans hate “joi-sey” accents most of all.</p>
<p>Vermont - There is a unique, quasi-Canadian accent in the northeastern part of the state, but much of the rest (including my area) has an extremely generic news-network accent. Same seems to go for upstate NY, NH, and MA outside of Boston.</p>